a16z Podcast: Coding as Literacy

a16z Podcast

• Episode: a16z Podcast: Coding as Literacy
• Website: a16z Podcast
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• Duration: 00:24:38
• Published: 2015-01-19 21:43

Tracy Chou from Pinterest, and Chris Granger and Jamie Brandon from Eve, discuss whether coding is a literacy (or as Granger puts it, a "superpower" ). But as software infuses every industry and much of our lives, do we all really need to start writing code? Or is a less hands-on approach -- educating ourselves about what software can (and can't) do, and the basic architecture behind its creation -- the most useful way to gain software literacy for most people?